somehow m.a.m. related

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938), a former architecture student in Dresden, transposed Munch’s social pessimism into the colour of van Gogh and the Fauve Matisse. Kirchner was the leader and most gifted member of a group of artists, all under thirty, which took the name of the Künstler-Gruppe Brücke or “Artists’ Group of the Bridge,” meaning a bri

In prewar Vienna, the leading Expressionist was the painter and occasional playwright Oskar Kokoschka (1886–1980).

attempts to freeze time in a static composition, to give visual motifs the “unfolding” quality of aural ones – and this sense of rhythmic disclosure, repetition, and blossoming transferred itself, quite naturally, to Klee’s images of plants and flowers.

But in their time, the forties and fifties, Davis’s images of mass culture were on their own. They ran counter to the romantic mainstream, and did not belong to the conventions that Surrealism had engendered. No other major American artists were ready to go so far into the badlands of other media, or to do it with that uniquely balanced mixture of

We know the names of some artists who died: among the painters, Umberto Boccioni, Franz Marc, and

for Otto Dix and Max Beckmann, who fought in Flanders, or for László Moholy-Nagy.

Eero Saarinen as the “Gateway to the West” in St. Louis, Missouri.